Sunday Shrooms

I’ve wanted Ava to love golf since she was a baby…

Helping business owners, a newsletter about names, and the search to buy a business…

Avoiding the flu, reading Neil Gaiman, and the prototype iPhone from the early 1990’s…

This is the 52nd issue of Sunday Shrooms…

I see a lot of upside in a steady business with a mediocre customer experience…

Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the sale of our business…

They stay because of the value that continues to be provided month after month…

If you’re doing acrobatics to make the deal work, it’s not the one…

Yesterday a friend asked me if I enjoy writing this newsletter…

I like the idea of buying something that already has traction and proven profitability…

I went to a symposium last week hosted by Nick Gray, author of The 2-Hour Cocktail Party…

Last week I went to a full day workshop focused on business strategy, hosted by Entrepreneur’s Organization…

Two takeaways from the pickleball social I went to last week…

As I reflect on this retreat, one of my favorite memories was the conversation at dinner on our final night together…

I have several friends whose businesses are struggling right now…

I’m experimenting with a performance-enhancing drug…

We have a phrase to describe when we buy something and later feel regret…

I officially earned my degree as a YouTube Orthodontist…

I love a good project, especially one that requires me to learn something new…

My nephew is getting married in two weeks…

We found out what it’s like to have a three-night sleepover…

I tried to buy a car on the internet…

Sarah suggested we go and we were all in…

I said something to Ava last week that I immediately regretted…

Group trips like this provide experiences we don’t get on a typical family vacation…

There I was, lying perfectly still while the scanner above me slowly made its way from my head down to my feet…

I loved baseball when I was a kid. Whether it was playing on a team, watching the Orioles, collecting cards, or enjoying a game of catch in the backyard…

As parents, we say no a lot. No, you can’t have more candy. No, we’re not buying that thing. No…

Cheating gets a bad rap. It sounds negative, but sometimes it’s good to cheat in life…

I’ve set some goals for July using a framework I stole from Sam Parr…

“I saw myself on the Mr. Universe stage with the trophy and thousands of people in the auditorium screaming Arnold, Arnold, Arnold…”

I used to dream in code. Twenty years ago, when I was a programmer at Ticketmaster…

I needed an idea pipeline, but I didn’t have a process for generating new ideas…

These conversations were different from every previous conversation I had about my idea…

After selling my business in December, I suddenly had a lot more time on my hands…

“Don’t make me go,” she said, as tears welled up in her eyes…

It’s been a long time since I’ve started something from nothing…

This week’s issue of Sunday Shrooms was written by Ava LaPrairie…

The word “unfortunately” will be banned from my next business…

Her answer was unequivocal – that person was going to hell…

Yesterday I gave a presentation to the group…

We stepped out of the helicopter at the bottom of the Grand Canyon…

I’ve gone on five solo retreats in the past five years…

I would do three things differently from my first business…

This is a friend group I admire. They live here in Austin and last week…

We tend to think of being in the state of flow as an uninterrupted focus on our craft…

Parents using training wheels have good intentions, but…

Every employee I’ve ever hired has screwed up…

We often think of our heroes as existing on a different plane…

I was annoyed that I couldn’t watch what I wanted at any time…

There was still some work to be done and it was back to just me and Gary…

I had been seeking a sense of ease for months…

I’ve always been a domain name collector…

There’s something irresistible about driving a golf cart…

As life lessons go, it wasn’t anything that would seem particularly memorable…